Caleb Hannan's back!

[goalmouth]

A breathy me-first expose of Deion Sanders' failed prep academy. Wonder if Neon Deion will harm himself after being being exposed to be something he wasn't?

The Miseducation Of Deion Sanders

 

[LongTimeListener]

Deion is a woman!

 

[SnarkShark]

On Deadspin... Interesting...

Couldn't get past this line.

Those, dear reader, were to be the opening paragraphs of a 2,000 word piece I was commissioned to write for a Big Magazine that, for reasons that will soon become obvious, will not be named.

I assume it's all about him the rest of the way and holy hell is it long.

 

[YankeeFan]

I wonder if he'll do any press to promote the article.

But, boy is Caleb the victim as ever:

Then, as happens often, the Big Magazine changed the plan. Or, to put it more bluntly, it stopped responding to my e-mails and decided it would rather not reimburse me for the time and money I'd spent, let alone pay me anything for the trouble. (The lesson, as always: Go do something else with your lives, kids.) This is a meta thing to say, and sounds like a plea for pity, but I promise it's not. Because once the Big Magazine stopped responding, I realized it might be a good thing that they would never publish the embarrassingly credulous piece I'd written. (Maybe we should give the Big Magazine some credit and assume they realized this, too.) And as time went on, and things got worse for both Deion and Prime Prep, that merely good thing turned into a blessing. I also realized there were other places that cared less about tidy narratives, and wouldn't mind a story about how bewildering it can be to spend 36 hours with a man who appears to believe, sincerely, that God meant for you to fly down to Dallas to talk with him about con men, cults, and the right and wrong way to live your life on TV.

But, at least he's very young, and still has time to switch careers.

 

[JackReacher]

How hard was your ****, YF, when you saw this thread?

 

[YankeeFan]

How hard was your ****, YF, when you saw this thread?

Whoa! I don't swing that way.

Not that there's anything wrong with it. I mean, the thought of it doesn't send a chill up my spine or anything.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

Anybody who uses "dear reader" is a douche.
You're not fkin D.H. Lawrence, dude.

 

[JayFarrar]

I already see an error and I've only made it to the third paragraph.

Does anyone at Deadspin have a map?

 

[YankeeFan]

Deadspin agreed to publish what Big Magazine declined to run.

What makes you think it was edited?

It was edited as closely as Wally Matthews post was edited here when the Post refused to run it.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Did Deadspin go after Hannan over the Grantland story?

 

[Songbird]

Anyone else think "Big Magazine" is utter bull**** to deflect from Dr. V fallout as well as to victimize himself?

Don't smell right.

 

[YankeeFan]

Anyone else think "Big Magazine" is utter bull**** to deflect from Dr. V fallout as well as to victimize himself?

Don't smell right.

With a freelancer, unless you have a contract, doesn't this kind of thing happen all the time?

Grantland rejected his Dr. V. story at least once.

 

[goalmouth]

Hamilton Nolan: First-person pieces mostly “offer run of the mill voyeurism tinged with the desperation of attention addiction”

 

[Alma]

I read half of this and I just can't ****ing believe Deadspin this piece the way it ran. Can't believe it. This is great material, really, drowning in a style more fitting for, I don't know, a Dave Eggers workshop. Ugh. It's a damn shame. It's like one of those two-star movies that you actually watch until the end and wish didn't have such a showy director behind the camera.

 

[YankeeFan]

He's young, He just needs a good editor.

Sadly, Deadspin failed young Caleb.

 

[Double Down]

I thought the piece was interesting. I don't know why it needed at the meta-bull**** about the magazine world. It did leave me wondering if the Dr. V stuff was at all related to Big Magazine's decision to pull the plug on his assignment. I thought that's where we were going with the first person stuff. It seems unlikely that a magazine would hire him to do a freelance assignment, then simply stop returning his emails entirely and stick him with expenses. That's not how freelance assignments work at that level. There's a missing piece here, now that I type it all out.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

How hard was your ****, YF, when you saw this thread?

He could have jack hammered diamonds into dust.

 

[Songbird]

I thought the piece was interesting. I don't know why it needed at the meta-bull**** about the magazine world. It did leave me wondering if the Dr. V stuff was at all related to Big Magazine's decision to pull the plug on his assignment. I thought that's where we were going with the first person stuff. It seems unlikely that a magazine would hire him to do a freelance assignment, then simply stop returning his emails entirely and stick him with expenses. That's not how freelance assignments work at that level. There's a missing piece here, now that I type it all out.

Wouldn't that be fuct if it *was* a set-up of sorts as punishment for Dr. V? That would be a diabolical punch to the balls.

Granted, he got it published -- you can do much worse than Deadspin. Still.

But I still wonder if he's holding "Big Magazine" up as a shield of bull**** to show everyone he can be victimized too.

I'll get to the story soon enough. Read few hundred words then had to take a **** and forgot about it.

 

[YankeeFan]

Hannan was/is damaged goods.

If he had an actual assignment from Big Magazine, they would have paid his expenses, and wouldn't have stopped returning his emails.

He pitched them. They showed some interest. They probably suggested he travel to Dallas to get some more for the story.

That doesn't mean they bought the pitch. It means there was a chance they would buy it if was worth it.

And, Hannan was desperate to get published in Big Magazine. It would mean he was back. It would validate his decision to never apologize to anyone for the Dr. V story, and to never answer any questions about it.

So, he flew to Dallas on his own dime, convinced that Big Magazine would buy his story.

It's understandable. He's young.

If everyone who had told me they were going to do business with me had, I'd be retired by now. Until you have a purchase order, a contract, or a check in hand, the deal isn't done.

It's a good life lesson for young Caleb.

 

[Songbird]

Good points, but we live in a world where people don't forget things like Dr. V's suicide and the guy who wrote about her and may have led to her to suicide -- then didn't apologize.

It's a good life lesson for young Caleb (if that's how it went down*).

* doesn't mean I think it went down like that, or even wish for that kind of Schadenfreude. It's just an interesting sort of comeback.